Switching and saving workspaces

One of the great things about Photoshop is that it's a very deep product.…It has a ton of functionality and lot of tools, lot of features that help you do…just about anything you want to do with your digital images.…The flip side of that is that there's a lot to absorb, a lot of panels, a lot of…tools and lot of menu commands.…What this Workspace feature inside Photoshop allows you to do is kind of…filter down the number of features and panels that you might want to be using at any given time.…So, if we take a look here, we are looking at the opening experience.…When you first open Photoshop, it's in the Essentials workspace.…All that really means is that there are certain panels that have been chosen to…be open by default and docked and located in certain locations on the screen.…

So, you can see we have Color and Styles group of panels up here.…We have Adjustments and Masks.…Then down here we have Layers, Channels and Paths.…Now, of course these panels can be rearranged and reordered and closed and opened.…

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4/30/2010

In Photoshop CS5 Essential Training, author Michael Ninness demonstrates how to produce the highest quality images with fantastic detail in the shortest amount of time, using a combination of Photoshop CS5, Adobe Bridge, and Camera Raw. This course shows the most efficient ways to perform common editing tasks, including noise reduction, shadow and highlight detail recovery, retouching, and combining multiple images. Along the way, Michael shares the secrets of non-destructive editing, utilizing and mastering Adobe Bridge, Camera Raw, layers, adjustment layers, blending modes, layer masks, and much more. Exercise files are included with the course.